Productivity
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Standing Desks
The tools you need to create the perfect setup at home.
Illustration: Yann Bastard for Bloomberg Businessweek
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By now you could be on your 3rd or even 14th iteration of something resembling a home office. If you’ve made it beyond a laptop in bed, congratulations. But you may still have a ways to go to reach the high evolutionary stage that is a motorized standing desk, which allows for an easy transition between sitting and standing.
Your body is designed to move, so shift positions—stand, sit, perch, lean—while you work, and think of a standing desk more as an “active desk”: It’s just a part of your routine of moving around. Here’s some equipment that’ll help make it easier to avoid sitting on your butt all day: